Hey guys, IM starting to get real bad gas mileage, The engine(v6) has like 115,000 miles,
any ideas on what to look for to fix this?
thanks
Craig

 

O2 sensor

If you haven't changed it lately, it needs it anyway... it's the #1 culprit of that in an otherwise properly working engine

 

Besides making you unhappy, teal cars have been known to get bad gas mileage. This is due to the car also being unhappy about its color, and wasting fuel to spite you.

Just playing, I really like how some teal cars look. There was a very nice looking teal formula that used to park by me last year. The o2 sensor is probably bad. Another reason for bad gas mileage could be an innaccurate coolant temperature sensor in the front of the intake manifold. Vader would tell you to test it and post this chart below, but I'd just change it because I'm like that.

 

thanks
How do I go about changing/testing the o2 sensor?
I am kinda a novice at this stuff

 

Oh yea,
the teal i guess isint too bad when its clean but every little drop of water, dirt shows, I dont care what anyone says this color shows more then any, any other.

 

Just change the o2 sensor. It's time. You'll want the exhaust to be warm so it will actually come out, but don't burn yourself. You can cut off the wire and use an oxygen sensor socket, or use a 7/8 wrench from below. It's in your drivers side exhaust manifold toward the bottom of the car, but facing the front. It should have a single pink wire iirc. Don't get the universal one that you have to splice, but rather one that you can just attach to the stock connecter.